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Diedrich
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I was informed by my father that he has observed excessive loading times on initial playback with his Roku 4 via WAN. I told him I'd look into it.

 

Just now I loaded a movie 1080p, H264, DTS 5.1 and observed an excessive load time on my Roku stick within my internal LAN. I quickly went to the server dashboard and saw that the video timer was counting up as though it was playing, but there was no playback. After about 45 seconds, buffering loaded on the Roku Stick and the server dashboard simultaneously indicated playback. The stats for nerds showed transcode due to audio format.

 

I'm not sure the issue here. Let me know what I can do to help diagnose.

Edited by Diedrich
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The transcoding initially started out very slow, as in not fast enough to be playable. Then it sped up and I'm guessing it was fine after that.

 

I can't really explain why the transcode would have started slow, probably something environmental.

 

For maximum performance you may want to look into formats that will direct play.

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